> In light of the recent board discussion, I decided to price some full > PowerPC systems. Check it out at > http://www.corplinux.com/powerpenguin if your > interested. Your link at IBM is broken, since it was for your personal shopping cart only. But are you considering different memory architectures, buses and video cards? AFAIK these factor much more into the equipment prices than clock speed or memory amount. Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs (Brasil) Ltda